Exploration works are to be conducted at the deposit to estimate methane and coal reserves to be accounted in the governmental balance in 2016.
Production of coking coal is planned to start no later than 2017. Seven hundred million roubles will be spent on exploration, Itera press service informs.
Apsatsk deposit development is of primary I,portance for regional economy. The coking coal concentrate will be delovered to both Russian metallurgy enterprises and to Asian-Pacific countries.